The Comps

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This podcast shares books I read weekly during my PhD comprehensive exams (comps). They are primarily about premodern Chinese history in the context of East Asia, material culture, colonialism, and imperialism.

Episodes

  1. 12/07/2024

    Ep.6 Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. by Meng Zhang

    Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

    10 min

  2. 11/22/2024

    Ep. 5 Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (by Yiwen Li).

    Yiwen Li, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Names of Japanese Monks mentioned:  Ennin (円仁, 794-864) Enchin (円珍, 814-891) Chōnen (奝然, 938-1016) Jakushō (寂照, 962?-1034) Jōjin (成尋, 1011-1081) Names of Places:  Hakata 博多 Dazaifu 太宰府; its collapse started from the Genpei War (源平合戦)

    11 min

  3. 11/09/2024

    Ep.4 The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (Anne Gerritsen) and An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700 (Xiaolin Duan)

    1.      Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 2.      Duan, Xiaolin. An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. About the sound quality of this episode: The studio where I usually record my podcast now has some technical glitches, and this episode is recorded at home with headphones.

    11 min

  4. 10/31/2024

    Ep.3 Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade

    Rosenthal, Gregory. "Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade." In Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World, 16-47. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.

    10 min

  5. 10/25/2024

    Ep. 2 The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas Allsen

    Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

    14 min

  6. 10/18/2024

    EP 1: the Golden Peaches of Samarkand

    Book information: Schafer, Edward H. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

    8 min
  7. EP 0: About THE COMPS

    SEASON 1 TRAILER

    EP 0: About THE COMPS

    Every PhD student in North America undergoes the Comps at some moment, but I chose to turn it into a podcast.

    2 min

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This podcast shares books I read weekly during my PhD comprehensive exams (comps). They are primarily about premodern Chinese history in the context of East Asia, material culture, colonialism, and imperialism.

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    Rui
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